Atlanta gets All-Star nod for 2025

Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, November 21, 2023

After losing out on the All-Star game back in 2021, the MLB has announced that Atlanta will play host to the 2025 All-Star game.

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Atlanta was originally set to host the All-Star event in 2021, but, jut three months before the weekend festivities, the MLB moved the game citing problems with the changes made to Georgia’s voting laws by Governor Brian Kemp. The changes in voting laws limited voting options and were largely put into place after republicans claim widespread fraud in the 2020 election. The changes were heavily criticized for being too restrictive and major Atlanta based companies such as Coca-Cola were very critical of the decision.

Among those who took action against the changes in voting laws was MLB commissioner Robert Manfred, who swiftly moved the 2021 All-Star game to Colorado, a largely democratic state that boasted a mail-in voting system that allows voters to use drop boxes and a tracking system to follow how and when their vote is counted.

The 2025 All-Star game will be the first All-Star game the Braves have hosted since 2000 and will be the third All-Star game that Atlanta has hosted. The first was in 1972. It will also be the first time they have held it in Trust Park, which opened in April of 2017. The Atlanta All-Star game will also mark the 95 MLB All-Star game. The first Major League Baseball All-Star game was played in 1933 in Comiskey Park in Chicago, home of the White Sox.